tidy sum
Example Sentences
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It’s a tidy sum that implies it took Musk less than seven seconds to earn what the average U.S. household makes in a year.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
That’s quite a nice tidy sum, but all the reasons you separated from your wife will still be there when you arrive in Colombia.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025
It's not the first banana-as-art that sold for a tidy sum.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024
Despite the market tumult since the bank’s collapse, those investments could collect a tidy sum, if the F.D.I.C. can find buyers, and defray the cost of paying out depositors.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
This caused me to give up my position of clerk that netted me in my four years’ labor the tidy sum of ten thousand dollars.
From Treading the Narrow Way by Barrett, R. E.
